NOUN
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sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment
he drank to drown his sorrows
to his rue, the error cost him the game
he wrote a note expressing his regret
How To Use ruefulness In A Sentence
- I told her about my coffee date with my neighbour last week, and we analysed with our usual ruefulness the mixture of mellowness and awkwardness that arose.
- Folk and country, romance and ruefulness, innocence and experience are all conjoined in their bewitching vocal harmonies.
- Today, as she tends her garden in a retirement community, Brevard considers her glamorous past with a mix of ruefulness and pride.
- Cuomo's voice, too, has changed over the years, losing some of its hangdog kickability and gaining faint echoes of Roy Orbison's ruefulness, as ‘The Other Way’ hints.
- But the more I thought about the matter, the more my feelings turned to ruefulness.
- There is a quality of self-directed ruefulness or self-causation.
- While he was a strong proponent of anti-inflationary policies, he looked back on these years with a certain ruefulness. Times, Sunday Times